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Seriously guys! It’s drinkable in all EU countries!
(europe.pub)
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/47526
Absolutely not something to be given for granted.
Shoutout to u/UnusualInstance6 on Reddit
In some EU countries it's pretty bad tasting though. Too much chlorine for me to really get used to.
Most places treat their water with chlorine or chloramine. Way better than having amoebas but if you can afford a filter do so. Different municipalities treat water differently, look yours up or test to see what you need. I went from carbon filters for chloramine to RO after moving somewhere with worse water
I guess it's more like most places in some regions.
Where I grew up it they get 44% pumped groundwater, and 56% from capped sources in the surrounding hills. The water from the sources is UV light treated to kill any organic contaminants, the ground water didn't need it.
Where I lived during high school it was all ground water filtered in three stages: ozone, activated carbon, and pH rebalancing, because it was close to a major river that leads into the Rhine.
Where I live now we get 85% groundwater, and 15% from sources with UV treatment for the sources only again.
So you can imagine that I'm not used to the taste. Visiting some regions in Italy where they chlorinated their water pretty hard, especially in summer, is always kind of a shock taste wise. Though to be fair I gotta say in Torino where I was last year it was completely fine.
Yeah. I'll drink tap water if I need to, but I'm not such a huge fan of limestone. I know it's not bad for me and in sane amounts it doesn't affect the flavour too much, but my tap water has way too much.
I've lived in other cities in the same country where water tasted way better. So it's not that I've ruined my taste buds by drinking copious amounts of carbonated mineral water, it's that in the particular city I live, every apartment has had kinda shit tap water. Of course it's all city water.
My friend's parents' home has tap water that comes from a spring on their own property. It has a lot of iron and that water tastes pretty damn good. My own childhood home has a well that the pump lifts water from. It's not excellent, but it's still better than the tap water in my current city.
Chlorine is kinda fragile, you can boil it or use uv (sunlight) to break it down. I find Melbourne water tastes bleachy from the tap.